IRISTAR Medicated Shampoo For Seborrheic Dermatitis: Anti-Dandruff Treatment for Itchy Scalp, Dermatitis, Anti-Fungal Care for Men & Women, Controls Oil, Flaking & Scalp Irritation

This shampoo is PERFECT!! Light tea tree scent. Good lather. You don't need much to get the job done. My flaky scalp is better after one week of use. As the bottle says, use it every 3 or 4 days - not too often. This is the perfect replacement for that one brand. I will call it out by name, as some other reviewers are reluctant to do. NIZORAL shampoo smells terrible!! I can't stand their generic overly-strong bathroom cleaner fragrance. I learned that ketoconazole worked for me but I actually let the dry flakes come back because I couldn't stand to use that stuff. After lots of searching I found this. This bottle is the exact same fluid oz as the Niz but it costs less. How perfect is that!?! Less expensive and no awful fragrance smell. It's a godsend. This shampoo cleared up my dry skin and scalp zit-bumps at the same time. I use a gentle co-wash on the days I don't use this shampoo. So glad to have relief from the skin condition and from the fragrance of that "other" brand.

While others mentioned a medicinal smell, it's the tea tree in the product. If you haven't smelt tea tree oil, it can be a bit medicinal smelling but it doesn't linger on the hair. Overall, I like the product. It leaves my hair and scalp clean and soft. I had some fungal issues due to sweat and this helped clear it up. Lather the product well and let sit on the scalp for a few minutes while in the shower to allow it to penetrate. It doesn't dry out my hair or stink up the bathroom like other products I've tried. I'll definitely buy again and would recommend to others.

I read the NIH insert for this product and the ingredients are consistent with the label shown in your posting...but this is not consistent with the item I received (box or bottle). If you look at other reviews, you will also see the ingredients are different - WAY BETTER than what you have listed in the NIH application and pic - No thiazolinone preservatives or DEA. So which is correct? Either way this shampoo performs better than Niz*** and does not burn the eyes. It does have a slight tea-tree ish smell but I think that has to be the tangerine and ginger extract (which leads me to believe the ingredients listed on the actual bottle and cartridge are correct, and not the one shown in your listing and NIH submission)...

UPDATE: I went to buy a new bottle and they've changed the formula - now has salicylic acid instead of ketoconazole. So that stinks. Off to look for a new shampoo I guess. This one did the trick. I have lifelong scalp issues which once in a while annoy me enough to try another round of different products. I thought I would try a ketoconazole-based shampoo again but didn't want to do the brand-name one in the blue bottle because I always found its scent unpleasant, lingering and overpowering, and I had mixed results with it in the past. I bought this one because it has the same active ingredient and my impression from the reviews was that it was mildly scented. It has worked extremely well, better than any other shampoo I have tried. I use it 2-3 times a week. The scent is mild and pleasant enough, what I think of as "health food store shampoo scent," like it's scented with natural peppermint essential oil. The fragrance does not linger. My scalp feels just...normal and neutral, for the first time in years, which is pretty amazing. Before, I could run my fingers through my hair and find numerous built up crusty areas and they are gone. Since the active ingredient is the same as the brand name stuff, I wonder if the fragrance or some additional ingredients in the brand name stuff kept it from working as well.

I use this every two weeks. It is great for my hair. My husband uses it for a skin rash. The bottle itself is terrible. It’s a thick shampoo and the pump leaves a lot behind. We have started putting it into another bottle that squeezes. One star off for the bottle only.